Industrial Firm Opens Plant in Costa Rica

From next February, the company producing medical equipment, automotive and industrial parts is to open a plant in the industrial park Inversiones Zeta S. A, in Alajuela, reports ElFinancierocr.com.

The facility will have an area of 1,300 m 2. The decision was made as part of the expansion of Okay Industries Inc. in its centenary of existence.

Source: elfinancierocr.com

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